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Re: Re: Floppy Window

To: "ptegler@gouldfo.com" <ptegler@gouldfo.com>,
Subject: Re: Re: Floppy Window
From: "alemen@pop.ftconnect.com" <alemen@pop.ftconnect.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:49:56 -0400
I had a floppy window as well on the drivers side. In fact you could lift it 
out. Solution was some silicone selant applied to the plastic guides to hold it 
in place as they had lost their "tension". Works great with the softtop.

Alan

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From: Ptegler ptegler@gouldfo.com
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:01:19 -0400
Subject: Re: Floppy Window



At the base of the window slides.... where they are bolted
to the inner door panel...you can add a washer or two
as standoffs to angle the tracks a bit. 

Really, your problem is the plastic guides that are the runners in the
track of the windows are worn down and not keeping the window
true. to the angle of the tracks.

Paul Tegler   wizardz@toad.net        http://www.teglerizer.com 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard B Gosling" <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
To: "spitfires" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:23 AM
Subject: Floppy Window



OK, so most of you never use your hard-tops, so this won't be a problem to you,
 but someone may have the answer...

Triumph, in their great wisdom, decided that our cars had no need of a
 quarter-light on the door windows.  As a result, there is not much to stop the
 windows flapping in and out.  As a result, my window leans out of the car,
 just a little, but enough that it does not press snugly against the rubber
 seal on the hard-top towards the top of the window.  At speed, the passing air
 outside the window sucks the window out a little further, and an unpleasant
 little draught sneaks in around the gap and blasts the back of my neck.

So, my question is, is there any way of either stiffening the window against
 its wobble (could there be a bit bit of looseness in the way the slider fits
 in the guides?), and/or adjusting the whole thing so that it's natural angle
 leans a bit more into the car, so that there is something to compress the
 window against my (nice new) window seals?

I will get the trim panel off and have a look at the set-up, but I was just
 wondering if anyone else has already been through this?

Richard and Daffy (them draughts is getting colder as November approaches...)



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